BurgerTime
Platform: TI-99/4A
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Joystick
Genre: Arcade - Action - Platform
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1984
Developer: Data East Corporation
Publisher: Texas Instruments
Players: 1
Licensed from: Data East Corporation
Programmer: John M. Phillips
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You play as Chef Pepper and your goal is to make giant hamburgers while evil eggs, sausages and pickles chase you around the game area. 

To properly make a hamburger you must assemble all of the ingredients together, dropping them from higher up onto the the burger area below. To actually do this you have to let Chef Pepper step all over the burger ingredients. As soon as an ingredient (a piece of lettuce for instance) has been stepped on, it will fall to the next level below. Falling food will squish any enemy following you and will also"bump" any other ingredient bellow it farther down. Also, as an emergency defense against the enemy food, you can collect pepper shakers which will allow you to puff out a small pepper cloud which will momentarily stun enemies, allowing you to walk past them.

Higher levels result in new level design, faster enemies and more ingredients to assemble.

The PlayStation 2 version is a port of the original arcade game and comes with a soundtrack disc, a 
DVD, a guide book and some other bonuses.

Trivia:

Egg

Ever wondered why one of the evil guys is an egg? In Japan where the game was made, it is common to add a fried egg to your burger.

Easter Egg Alert!  If you press the " * " button on the title screen, a message will pop up that says "Code Modifications by John M Phillips." John Phillips debugged this video game at TI and was famous for adding cheat modes to the games he worked on which allowed the player to select the number of lives he wanted to start with and which screen to start on. Even though Burgertime does not have a cheat mode, John Phillips did manage to let video game players know that he was involved with the development of the game by including this little message.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/ti-994a/burgertime
